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Summary: Owes a bit to Jules Verne
Review: Beasties in the center of the earth? Giant snails? I LOVED IT. This is educational and a lot of fun, once you let your imagination go. It has some of the pulp drive of "Night of the Beast," but Harry Shannon was only interested in entertainment where Rollins also wants to educate. "Subterranean" is the kind of novel that makes you feel while you learned something while being entertained, and that ain't a bad thing.
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Summary: Love it
Review: I needed a book to read when I was home for Christmas a couple of years ago, and my mom pointed this one out to me. Too bad I liked it so much. I finished it a couple hours after I picked it up and had nothing else to read again...sigh. So if you want a book that you can finish quickly, this is the one.
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Summary: Fantastic "Sleeper" Book...should have been a big hit..
Review: I bought this book on an impulse as I noticed the author lives close to my area of the country. I was amazed at his imagination...this books takes you places you would never have dreamed of yourself. I think books written by people who are experts in their field (such as James Rollin's evolutionary biology background) make for very interesting reading. Don't get me wrong, no boring details in this book. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute reading it through...twice!
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Summary: Could have been better but still really good
Review: I'll be brief. After the first chapter I was hooked. I thought it was a really great book and the character development was wonderful. The only problem I had with it was I think Rollins could have made the book alot better with a few details. The beginning was very good because it was mysterious and you weren't sure what exactly was going on but after the "monsters" were revealed I was somewhat disappointed. They were a bit hard to grasp and reminded me of monsters in a cheesy scifi movie. I don't think Rollins took his skills as far as he could go. But other than that, this book kept me reading. Despite my complaints, I strongly recommend buying this book. Rollins did a great job with the exception of the monsters.
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Summary: A majorly excellent book
Review: I first read this book about 3 years ago - and absolutely loved it. It passed thru my whole family, with everyone loving it. It's the type of book you can't put down, are disappointed when it's over, and still think about for a while to come. I reread it each year, and still am not sick of it. This book is excellently written with an incredible plot and great characters.. I'd say this book makes Rollins look like a writer that's been at it for many years.This is the book that got me into the whole anthropoligical-fiction action book.. a very fascinating type of book. I look forward to reading all of James Rollins future stories!
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Summary: VERY Hard to put down
Review: I'm a fan of Greg Donegan's Atlantis series. While this novel doesn't top those (I stayed up all night reading those) it comes pretty darn close. I loved it! I look forward to reading his other books. By the way, this is his first novel... Pretty impressive, if I may say so.
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Summary: Maybe we should keep this one buried
Review: Stylistically, the novel succeeds in the most basic sense. The characters are developed to where a reader can empathize with their goals. The plot is of a classic adventure, shaped with deliberation. And the backdrop to the story, the setting and the secondary characters, are handled with a keen eye. Moreover, the narrator goes to some lengths to supply the reader with fairly in-depth scientific information, giving readers a superficial lesson or two about biology and geography. But with all that said, it is unfortunate that the narrator did not write at a higher level for those readers who saw the novel's characters as cartoonish, their motivations suspicious and the plot they found themselves in predictable. There were some great ideas offered in the book and the language was impeccable, it's just too bad a second rate story was the result.
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Summary: Beneath the Ice
Review: An expedition has been sent out. With experts from the fields of spelunking, biology, geology and archaeology, they plan to set foot on ground that no person has ever before seen. Ground two miles bellow the Earth's crust, ground that is at the bottom of an Antarctic Volcano. The team of explorers cannot help but feel as though they are not getting the complete truth, and with the appearance of three armed escorts, they begin to feel as though they are getting in over their heads. The adventure continues, and the explore deeper and deeper into the cavern, looking for clues about the previous exploration's fate. Their journey takes them to natural springs, caverns the size of football fields and giant predatory snails; from predatory descendants of the platypus to killer mold, "Subterranean" conjures up a nightmarish zoo. All in all, James Rollins' "Subterranean" gives the reader an incredible read that is nearly impossible to put down, with an ending full of excitement and near misses that begs the question, "Are we alone on this planet?"
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Summary: Good read!
Review: Very orginal and interesting. Lots of imagination. I could see it all like it was a movie unfolding in my head. Real page turner. I seldom give out 5 stars that is why this only got 4.
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Summary: Character Review
Review: I thought this book was a great read. The characters were believeable and I found it hard to put it down without finishing it. I especially liked how the author worked through the characters' problems, such as the Biologist, Linda. At the beginning of the story we learn that she has a big problem with claustrophobia, but is able to overcome this phobia while working through even bigger problems that crop up in the story. Sometimes we think that our problems couldn't be worse and we really don't grow or work through them until other bigger problems come up in our lives. The author has a real knack for helping you to feel for the characters and to feel like you really know them. Ashley was a favorite character of mine because she was a smart, independant career woman, but also a good mother. She wanted her son along with her and didn't try to pawn him off on others while she went on her adventures. Some might think this an irresponsible thing to do, but I liked that she included him in her life. I felt this book was a real page turner and was on the lookout from then on for other James Rollins books.
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